November 2011

Show sites on map. With this release you can use the search interface to refine a list of specific sites that interest you, then show their locations on a map. Currently Google Maps is being used to display site locations. Simply select the "Show sites on map" radio button for the output format, then submit the form.
General Functionality

Corrected text to not imply statistics are available for February 30.
Updated documentation to show all columns output in the tab-separated format for field measurements.
Parameter Groundwater level relative to Mean Sea Level (MSL), feet (72150) is now listed in the Water Level/Flow category when selecting a current condition parameter to display.
Added parameter code 50012, Compaction, aquifer system, feet.
Added parameter code 72213, Turbidity, water, unfiltered, monochrome near infra-red LED light, 780-900 nm, detector angles at 90 +/- 2.5 degrees and 30 +/- 15 degrees, ratiometric, FBRU

The USGS has retired all services that were formally on interim.waterservices.usgs.gov domain. Please use the newer services instead. Links to and pages for interim water services have been removed.
No web services have been changed. However, numerous errors have been corrected in the documentation. Some of the changes:
- A USGS parameter code field was inadvertently left in the Site Service Test tool. This feature is not ready yet, so the field was removed from the tool.
- There was confusion between USGS parameters and URL parameters. To reduce confusion, URL parameters (key/value pairs) are now referred to as arguments.
- When using a web service test tool, the "Run Generated URL" button now shows the content in a separate window.
Product showcase has been updated with additional applications.
Corrected ancillary text in some of the sample applications.
Web 2.0 example on the water services main page has been improved.

Modified NWIS Mapper to use expanded Site Web Service to retrieve site information.

New Functions: Use of the expanded Site Service provides selection of sites by type of data collected, including:

Any data
Current conditions (current condition or most recent data and values for up to the last 120 days)
Instantaneous data (historical)
Daily data (summary for a particular day such as maximum, minimum and mean)
Peak data
Surface-water measurements
Groundwater measurements
Water-quality samples
Annual data report is available online (one or more since 2006)

Added direct link to current condition data page when a current condition site is selected on the map.
Enhanced Navigation:
- Removed current condition sites from Include menu because current conditions is a data type and is included there.
- Added URL argument to allow input of default site mapping group.
- Moved glaciers from Surface Water to Other Sites mapping group.
- Simplified list of selectable areas to just U.S. States and territories. Other areas can still be viewed using the Enter a Place or Address control.
- Modified layout of header navigation to avoid conflict with browser window resizing.
Documentation:
- Added links to help for site mapping groups.
- Renamed Instructions to Help.
- Updated Help.
- Moved Disclaimer link from header bar to below map.
- Renamed USGS topographic map base to Topo to eliminate confusion that service is supplied by USGS. The topographic map base is supplied by a commercial source.
- Added disclaimer to warn users that topographic map base is not available for all areas.
- Added notice that the map will only show sites for which location coordinates are available and pointed users to NWIS Web Interface to obtain available water data for any sites.
- Added warning message if user tries to select Inactive sites with current condition data, which is an illogical combination.